Burgess, Edward Sandford (1855–1928) papers
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of a notebook, labeled as "Vol. II", containing handwritten notes for lectures on botany. There are also newspaper clippings and articles concerning various plants.
Dates
- Creation: 1889–1895, n.d.
Creator
- Burgess, Edward Sandford, 1855-1928 (Person)
Language of Materials
English
Biographical / Historical
Edward Sandford Burgess (1855–1928) taught botany at Central High School in Washington, D.C. (1882–1895), Martha's Vineyard Summer Institute (1881–1895), Johns Hopkins University (1885) and Hunter College (1895–1925). Burgess specialized in asters, discovering 84 species. He contributed the botanical descriptions of asters to Nathaniel Lord Britton (1859–1934) and Addison Brown (1830–1913), An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States (New York, 1896–1898, vol. 3) and to John Kunkel Small (1869–1938), Flora of the Southeastern United States (New York, 1903).
Extent
.2 Linear Feet (2 file folders)
Separated Materials
One clipping was removed from this file in 1979 and transferred to John Torrey’s biographical file.
- Title
- Guide to the Edward Sandford Burgess (1855–1928) papers
- Author
- Nancy L. Janda
- Date
- 2022
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- English
Repository Details
Part of the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation Archives Repository